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Delineating: Culture-Mass-Popular. Introduction. 'Culture' and 'Masses' / Raymond Williams

Mass Civilization and Minority Culture / F. R. Leavis

A Theory of Mass Culture / Dwight Macdonald

Femininity as Mas[s]querade: A Feminist Approach to Mass Culture / Tania Modleski

The Popular / Morag Shiach

Notes on Deconstructing 'The Popular' / Stuart Hall

'Pueblo Pueblo': Popular Culture in Time / Juan Flores

Commodifying: The Commodity, Culture and Social Life. The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof / Karl Marx

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / Walter Benjamin

Culture Industry Reconsidered / Theodor W. Adorno

The Commodity as Spectacle / Guy Debord

Reification And Utopia in Mass Culture / Fredric Jameson

Introduction to 'The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Late Capital' / Lisa Lowe and David Lloyd

Marketing: Socio-Economic Considerations of Popular Culture. Tommy Hilfiger in the Age of Mass Customization / Paul Smith

America's Paradox / Ellis Cashmore

Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Culture / Inderpal Grewal

Corporate Disney in Action / Janet Wasko

How Tiger Lost His Stripes: Post-Nationalist American Studies as a History of Race, Migration, and the Commodification of Culture / Henry Yu

Practicing: Popular Tastes & Ways of Consuming. Introduction

Popular Discrimination / John Fiske

(Male) Desire and (Female) Disgust: Reading 'Hustler' / Laura Kipnis

Symbolic Creativity / Paul Willis

Star Trek: Rerun, Reread, Rewritten: Fan Writing as Textual Poaching / Henry Jenkins

Sleaze Mania, Euro-Trash, and High Art: The Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture / Joan Hawkins

Voicing: Identities and Articulation. What is this 'Black' in Black Popular Culture? / Stuart Hall

Bombay, U.K., Yuba City: Bhangra Music and the Engendering of Diaspora / Gayatri Gopinath

The Face of America and the State of Emergency / Lauren Berlant

Pedro Zamora's Real World of Counterpublicity: Performing an Ethics of the Self / Jose Esteban Munoz

Looking for My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn / Richard Fung

Styling: Subculture and Popular Performance. Subculture / Dick Hebdige

Second-Hand Dresses and the Role of the Ragmarket / Angela McRobbie

The Media Development of 'Subcultures' (Or the Sensational Story of 'Acid House') / Sarah Thornton

A Style Nobody Can Deal With: Politics, Style and the Postindustrial City in Hip Hop / Tricia Rose

If I Had a Dick: Queers, Punks, and Alternative Acts / Cynthia Fuchs

Drag Kings: Masculinity and Performance / Judith Halberstam

Locating: Space, Place, and Power. Walking in the City / Michel de Certeau

Seance, Tricknowlogy, Skateboarding, and the Space of Youth / Michael Nevin Willard

Straight Out the Barrio: Ozomatli and the Importance of Place in the Formation of Chicano/a Popular Culture in Los Angeles / Victor Hugo Viesca

Wearing Your Art on Your Sleeve: Notes Towards a Diaspora History of Black Ephemera / Paul Gilroy

Diasporic Noise: History, Hip Hop, and the Post-Colonial Politics of Sound / George Lipsitz

Head-Hunting on the Internet: Identity Tourism, Avatars, and Racial Passing in Textual and Graphic Chat Spaces / Lisa Nakamura.